. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. TO llif Antinit Ihiii'antru Flonsc, A, house, after tlie ii^.ual Siuiioaii lasliion, has Init tnic apartment. It is llic cciiuinois parhiur, tiitiiiu^-ruom. It)' <la\'. iiiid the hed^nioni of the wiiole fariiily 1)y tiiglit. Hiey do not. however, altoi^-ether herd indiseriniiiialeiy. If you peep into a Saiiioaii lioitse at iiiidtiiglit, you will see live or six low oblong Ifiilx {fainaiinf] pitched (or rather strung up) here and there through the house. Thev are nnule
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. TO llif Antinit Ihiii'antru Flonsc, A, house, after tlie ii^.ual Siuiioaii lasliion, has Init tnic apartment. It is llic cciiuinois parhiur, tiitiiiu^-ruom. It)' <la\'. iiiid the hed^nioni of the wiiole fariiily 1)y tiiglit. Hiey do not. however, altoi^-ether herd indiseriniiiialeiy. If you peep into a Saiiioaii lioitse at iiiidtiiglit, you will see live or six low oblong Ifiilx {fainaiinf] pitched (or rather strung up) here and there through the house. Thev are nnule of native eluthy- five feet higli. and close all round down to the mat. They shut out the inoscptitoes, inclose a place some eight feet by fi\-e ; and lliese said teutdooking places ma}' he caiied the /vvA/Vi' of the himilv, h'onr or five mats laitl loosely, the one on the top of the other, form the hi'd: tlie pidow is a piece of tluck band^oo, three inches in diameter, lliree to five feet long, anil ruiscd three inches from the mat hv short wooden feet f log. f^'). After private prayer in the nn') the tent is unstrung, nmts, pillow an<l sheet rolled together, and laid up overhead on a shelf between the posts in the middle of the house. These rolls edding. a bundle or two <lone up in native cloth, on the same shelf in thf; centre of the house, a liaskcl, a fan or two. and a bnlehor's kidfe stuck into the tliatcli within reach, a fishing utg, a gu'.i strung up along the rafters, a lew paddles, a wooilen chest in om: corner, ami a few cocoaoiut shell in anotlier, are about all tlio things in the shape of hiruilure or property vou c-au see in looking into a Samoan house. The firephioe is about the midille of the house. It is merely a circular hollow, two or three feet in diameter, a few inches deep, and lined witli hardi'ued chiv. It is not used for cooking, but tor the purpose of lighting uivthe at night. A llifinim^ fire, was the regul
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